Surveyor

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Some explorations of Surveyor, a new family of print and web fonts we're working on.

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Buzzards Bay

March 26, 2014

This was the first piece of sample art I made using our Surveyor typeface, after it was completed. Since the fonts are based on engraved map lettering, I couldn't resist; I chose Buzzards Bay because it had a nice mix of coastal towns an...

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The Surveyor Family

March 25, 2014

The Surveyor font family kind of resists being displayed in a grid, given its 140 styles. Here's the best that Brian Hennings and I came up with, showing just the Fine optical size (not the display, text, or ScreenSmart.)

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Couturier

March 25, 2014

Some more of the Surveyor italics, showing a couple of telltale glyphs. The cap C — like the G and S — have ball terminals, instead of serifs; unusual for capitals, and something we've only explored once before in Archer. There's also an...

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Surveyor Italic

March 25, 2014

We actually began Surveyor with the italic, not the roman. It's based on lettering used by mapmakers; the style is called (unglamorously) "stump style," and it's a form of lettering that endured on maps until they stopped being reproduce...

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Spicerack

March 25, 2014

Some of the different moods we're coaxing out of the new Surveyor font. This image has all three of the optical sizes: the Fine in the headline, the Text below, and the Display in the colorful grid.

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Apercu

March 25, 2014

Surveyor, a new font we're releasing. There are three optical sizes: "Apercu" is in the Fine Black Italic, with some alternate swashes that we can't resist.